Younger Alzheimer’s patients have disproportionately more tau pathology on PET-CT imaging than older patients who are similarly symptomatic, according to a small multicenter European study. The authors suggest defective tau proteins alone can predict disease onset and progression, while later-developing Alzheimer’s likely owes to a confluence of contributing factors. {read more here}

Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine found that lower levels of serotonin transporter in the brain are linked to dementia. {read more here}

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are advancing lung cancer surgery by combining intraoperative molecular imaging (IMI) with a novel near-infrared contrast agent and preoperative PET/CT scans to help surgeons better see and extract both obvious and hard-to-find tumors. {read more here}

In a study published in the August edition of the journal Diabetes, Weibo Cai and colleagues used a PET scanner to detect minute levels of a radioactive chemical in the mouse pancreas.  {read more here}